--Tangocherie asked: 'No, but in tradition-minded BsAs, dressing in "elegant sport" (no jeans, shorts, cargo pants, or athletic shoes), is in respect to the tango. Normally gentlemen wear nice slacks with a button shirt. Jackets or tuxedos are not necessary.'
I've been to BsAs several times. For some portenos, at SOME milongas it is still part of the tradition. For some (and there is a generational gap there) isn't. Actually, the whole jeans/cargo pant stuff with the suede lining ORIGINATES in BsAs, along with the Puma shoes, branded T-shirts...this is the way (young) people dress in the streets. The only difference is that I found a lot better designed (and a lot cheaper) casual fashion there then anywhere in Europe. --Vince asked: So why do so many people make a pilgrimage to BsAs? Because the dance is, erroneously, called Tango Argentino outside Latin America, so people think that they can get the real stuff only there. Of course it helps a LOT to go there, experience the continuation of the culture that gave birth to tango, especially if you come from a very different one, but for most people this is not the REASON why people go. As I've said: I know what I'm saying, but tango, especially the tango we are talking about here on a list filled with dancers not living in Buenos Aires, is a phenomenon that is driven by people outside Argentina. We might like the culture (I do), but we are NOT of that culture. Nevertheless, our interest, our communities, our milongas OUTSIDE Argentina, the teachers who visit us for our euros, dollars and yens are those which define tango today - even inside Argentina, even if there are still many locals learning tango. And this is not even something new. Tango itself was made by a mixture of ethnicities, cultures within Argentina, but became mainstream by massive external influence in the past and then revived and kept alive by massive external influence. So what you say is just strengthening my example: BsAs is a museum of tango. Of course it is NOT only a museum, as the most popular dancers are still Argentines. But the part you tried to imply very much is. But the actual 'content' of tango in general is already changing. Even 'traditional milongueros' began to use the ideas generated by nuevo, since nuevo is an inclusive term: using nuevo you can describe any style of tango. -- Ecsedy Áron *********** Aron ECSEDY Tel: +36 20 66-36-006 http://www.milonga.hu/ http://www.holgyvalasz.hu/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4479 (20091004) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
